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punct: punctuation

punct relation is used to annotate tpunctuation marks.

Two kinds of punctuations can be distinguished:

  1. Punctuation in coordination

Coordination in the Basque UD annotation follows the general schema where the first element of the conjunction is the head, and each conjunct, conjunction complementizer or puntuation mark acting as a conjunction should be attached to the first conjunct::

Example:

Zidane, Henry, Barthez, Deschamps, Blanc and the rest form the most robust team according to most experts.

Zidane, Henry, Barthez, Deschamps, Blanc eta enparauek Europako Talde sendoena osatzen dute aditu gehienentzat.

Zidane, Henry, Barthez, Deschamps, Blanc and rest-the-erg Europe-gen team robust-the-most form aux-they-transtive-present expert most-for.

Note that it is the last conjunct the element showing the ergative case. The ergative case corresponds to subjects of transitive verbs. In this case to form

~~~ sdparse Zidane , Henry , Barthez , Deschamps , Blanc eta enparauek Europako talde sendoena osatzen dute aditu gehienentzat . punct(Zidane-1, ,-2) conj(Zidane-1, Henry-3) punct(Zidane-1, ,-4) conj(Zidane-1, Barthez-5) punct(Zidane-1, ,-6) conj(Zidane-1, Deschamps-7) conj(Zidane-1, ,-8) conj(Zidane-1, Blanc-9) cc(Zidane-1, eta-10) conj(Zidane-1, enparauek-11) nmod(talde-13, Europako-12) dobj(osatzen-15, talde-13) amod(talde-13, sendoena-14) aux(osatzen-15, dute-16) nmod(osatzen-15, aditu-17) det(aditu-17, gehienentzat-18) punct(osatzen-15, .-19) ~~~ .

  1. The rest of the punctuations

Treebank Statistics (UD_Basque)

This relation is universal.

19808 nodes (16%) are attached to their parents as punct.

15294 instances of punct (77%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child). Average distance between parent and child is 5.93820678513732.

The following 19 pairs of parts of speech are connected with punct: VERB-PUNCT (16109; 81% instances), NOUN-PUNCT (2099; 11% instances), ADJ-PUNCT (616; 3% instances), PROPN-PUNCT (593; 3% instances), ADV-PUNCT (100; 1% instances), NUM-PUNCT (78; 0% instances), CONJ-PUNCT (52; 0% instances), AUX-PUNCT (47; 0% instances), DET-PUNCT (42; 0% instances), PUNCT-PUNCT (32; 0% instances), ADP-PUNCT (16; 0% instances), VERB-CONJ (6; 0% instances), VERB-PROPN (6; 0% instances), X-PUNCT (4; 0% instances), NOUN-PROPN (3; 0% instances), PART-PUNCT (2; 0% instances), INTJ-PUNCT (1; 0% instances), PRON-PUNCT (1; 0% instances), VERB-NOUN (1; 0% instances).


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